CN1618615A - Printing process for compact machine and related machine - Google Patents
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Abstract
The present invention provides a method for printing mail in the franking machine, and the mail has postmark data and other data to be printed. Wherein, in the continuous printing process of the franking machine, other data is printed before said postmark data.
Description
Technical field
The present invention relates to the field of special disposal mail, relate in particular to a kind of method that on mail, prints, adopt this method can make postage meter or " franking machine " structure (frankingmachines) compact more.
Background technology
At present,, promptly print speed specifically, have big quantitative limitation in its design greater than the reasonable franking machine of compact conformation in other words of per hour 10000 envelopes and size for high performance franking machine.One of these restrictions are exactly to increase the possibility of increasing value-added service on the specific mail arbitrarily, thereby must consider and handle additional print data.Yet time factor is very important, and needs the whole process time factor of weighing in real time under the situation of (weighed " on the fly ") particularly important at mail.It must fast processing data, the postmark that promptly calculates encryption or encode quickly specifically.
Summary of the invention
The present invention is based on and makes " type information on the mail can be divided into two groups " that the inventor finds.First group of information comprises the information that need not any specific calculation: for example destination-address, addresser address, various service mark or other informational message and poster; Second group of information comprises the information that needs specific calculation or processing: for example, postage expense (calculating), identification code (from other item of described rate, calculating) according to the weight of an item, these two key elements only appear in the postmark, just on the part of the rightmost side of mail.
The inventor draws a kind of new Method of printing from above-mentioned discovery, it can obtain more small-sized machine, thereby and can calculate postmark in advance and have more reliability, this processing procedure may further comprise the steps:
Determine the format and the thickness of mail, thereby can calculate the postmark content in advance;
The process that mail is sent to print module from differential Weighing module, begin to carry out weighing operation;
On mail, print other data that will print;
Detect the termination of weighing operation by the mail of sending out from differential Weighing module;
Determine the weight of mail;
Calculate the postmark that to print;
On mail, print indicia data.
Thereby, adopt this Method of printing, can obtain quite high processing speed.
Depend on institute take embodiment, the process of print e-mail can be the continuous printing from its trailing edge to its leading edge, or mail is inverted continuous printing from its leading edge to its trailing edge, then postmark appears at the mail lower left corner.
The invention allows for a kind of franking machine that is used for the print module of print e-mail that comprises, this print module directly is arranged in the exit of a differential Weighing module, this franking machine is characterised in that described differential Weighing module comprises a plurality of sensors that are used for determining mail format and thickness, thereby can calculate the postmark content in advance, and the detector that exists that is arranged between described differential Weighing module and the described print module, be used to survey the time that mail has been weighed.
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By reading non-limitative illustration hereinafter and will understand feature of the present invention and advantage better in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in the accompanying drawing:
Fig. 1 and 2 is two skeleton diagrams of implementing Method of printing of the present invention;
Fig. 3 has represented to use the embodiment of the franking machine of method shown in Figure 2;
Fig. 4 has represented the embodiment of the franking machine of a prior art;
Fig. 5 is the process flow diagram of calculation code postmark in advance.
Embodiment
Fig. 1 and Fig. 2 have represented to be used for two kinds of embodiments at the Method of printing of the present invention of franking machine print e-mail.Mail 10 comprises at least one destination-address 12 and is imprinted on the postmark 14 in the upper right corner of mail usually.Yet, also comprise an addresser address 16, advertisement and identifier or poster 18, various postal mark for example postal mark and a specific service mark 22 of 20 indications often.
In traditional print e-mail process, the leading edge 24 by mail begins to print, thereby always prints the postmark 14 that is positioned at the mail right side earlier, and poster 18 or destination-address 12 can only be printed subsequently again.
The present invention proposes a kind of method of reverse printing, and its back edge 26 by mail begins to print, so print postmark 14 at last.As shown in Figure 1, a kind of approach that realizes the method is with placing on the conventional path of transmitting mail (promptly that envelope turns upside down, as shown by arrows from left to right), mail slowly advances against the wall 28 of conventional franking machine in a usual manner, therefore the structure of franking machine is constant, and mail by its longitudinally lower limb 30 slowly advance, rather than as conventional, advance by vertical coboundary 32.Alternatively, as shown in Figure 2, it also can oppositely be realized by the direction that will transmit mail, thereby mail can transmit (shown in the direction of arrow) from right to left, therefore need a kind of franking machine of new construction, undertaken by vertical coboundary 32 but advance continuously to remain.
Fig. 3 shows a kind of embodiment of franking machine of new structure.It at first comprises the differential Weighing module that can omnidistance weigh in real time, and it both can play an effect to print module supply mail, also had the function of weighing that claims the weight of an item.This Weighing module comprises a reception pallet (reception tray) 34 that is used for receiving mail, has constituted a weighing pan 36 with weighing unit 38 on its bottom, and this weighing unit sends each weight from the mail of this pallet output in a usual manner.The conveyor belt rollers 40 that is arranged in the weighing pan place of tray bottom can make mail being sent one by one in the pallet.Also be provided with photo-detector 42 at the top that receives pallet, be used for when loading pallet, stopping machine, thereby avoid the weight miscount.A print module 44 is located immediately at the exit of weighing with supply module, and this print module is placed between two groups of support rollers that stack: two upstream pinch roll 46,48, and it is used for clamping from the mail of weighing and supply module is sent; With two downstream pinch roll 50,52, it is discharged to mail out of the press in certain suitable containers 54.One of two rollers, the roller 46,50 above being preferably is by motor-driven, other roller then is mounted idle pulley.In traditional mode, roller can optionally be substituted by travelling belt.Print module is traditional ink jet type, and it has one or two with respect to the horizontal printhead (print head) that moves of mail transfer path, thereby can print on the whole width of mail.Yet also can use a single fixedly jet pipe, this depends on the technology that is adopted.
Weigh and supply module 34-42 and print module 44 between place one detect that mail passes through have a detector 56.This detector can be any known type: mechanical, physics or optics.More accurately, it both can detect passing through of mail guide lug (leading dege), specify its trailing edge 26 to be guide lug in the case, and as the start signal that starts print cycle, also can detect passing through of mail trailing edge (trailing edge), specify its leading edge 24 to be trailing edge in the case, and provide the start signal that is used to calculate the weight of an item and enciphered data.
Described calculating is carried out by a processing module 58, this module receives raw information from the Weighing module 38 that links to each other, and give print module 44 with the necessary data transfer of print e-mail, it is to control as the function of state of the sensor 56 that is attached thereto.Certainly, this processing module can also be controlled the motion of each pinch roll and transfer roller by traditional approach.
Newly design with respect to prior art as can be seen by concrete comparison diagram 3 and Fig. 4 and to have obtained compact structure more.In Fig. 4, it shows a design that also has the prior art of differential Weighing module 60, and the outlet of described as can be seen Weighing module 60 must be the same long with the longest mail that will print at least with distance between the print module 62.The weight of a mail can only just can draw after this mail leaves weighing pan, thereby this must mean that print module will be apart from weighing and the distance of at least one article length of supply module, thereby can print postmark on the right side of described mail.Therefore, if need to print the envelope of A4 format, distance D is necessary for about 300 millimeters (mm).
On the contrary, for the present invention's design as shown in Figure 3, owing to be inverted print procedure, distance D no longer depends on the size of an item that will print, thereby can reduce to the minor increment of an about 60mm, this distance is the standard length corresponding to an European postmark, and this distance may need to increase an additional distance, additional distance is corresponding to determining the weight of an item and the necessary computing time of encrypting postal data, and this time is corresponding to a big slightly distance.Thereby the space that is saved is considerable (distance D maximum by divided by 5), thereby can make manufactured compact especially of machine, therefore is convenient to transportation, and a more organized workstation can be provided.
It should be noted that can reduce computing time mentioned above by directly handling in receiving pallet, in advance the format and the thickness of the mail that will weigh are detected by suitable sensor, as shown in Figure 5, thus the postmark of calculation code in advance.From the first step 100 of determining postmark option (destination, mail rank or required service), step 102 that format detects, step 104 that thickness detects and from the postal data storehouse, can in next step 106, estimate a suitable weight range, thereby estimate a postage expense corresponding to postal data, in next step 108, can calculate most probable coding postmark, simultaneously date printed (step 110) and fixedly postal data (step 112) all be known.The accurate weight of obtainable mail in the step 114, if this accurate weight falls in the scope estimated (result of testing procedure 116 for just), then in step 118, carry out automatic selection, only be limited in computing time in the affirmation of estimating scope to the specific postmark that will print.Because presorting of mail arranged, thus this calculate to protect in advance levy very high running speed.If discreet value is wrong (result of testing procedure 116 is for negative), it can or slow down or stops conveyer, so that the coding postmark that will print is accurately calculated (step 120), perhaps also can directly mail be delivered to one and wait pallet, thereby computation process can be continued from the place of stopping be for further processing (special marking).Guaranteeing that various postage taximeters (franking meters) were upgraded (step 122) afterwards in advance, can carry out routine to described data and print (step 124) that obviously all fixedly postal data that need not to calculate all have been printed.
Note also that method shown in Figure 1 is applied in the size that also can reduce this machine on traditional franking machine.Need not to allow distance D must equal the longest length of wanting print e-mail in this configuration, weigh and the outlet and print module of supply module between, its need leave a distance that equals the length of the postmark that will print.When the high speed processing mail, this distance perhaps needs to increase, to obtain to calculate the time of Item Weight and coding postal data.Yet the speed of mail has slowed down or when stopping, this distance remains unchanged if transmit.Therefore, by remove print module and weigh and supply module between conveyer make two modules more near, thereby obtained a more small-sized machine.
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1. the method for a print e-mail in franking machine, this franking machine comprises a print module that directly is arranged in differential Weighing module exit, and this mail comprises indicia data and other data that need print, and this method is characterised in that it may further comprise the steps:
Determine the format and the thickness of mail, thereby can calculate the postmark content in advance;
The process that mail is sent to print module from differential Weighing module, begin to carry out weighing operation;
On mail, print other data that will print;
Detect the termination of weighing operation by the mail of sending out from differential Weighing module;
Determine the weight of mail;
Calculate the postmark that to print;
On mail, print indicia data.
2. Method of printing as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that the process that prints carries out to its leading edge continuously from its trailing edge on mail.
3. Method of printing as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that the process that prints carries out to its trailing edge continuously from its leading edge on mail, wherein mail is squeezed, and postmark appears on the lower left corner.
4. franking machine that has a print module that is used for print e-mail, this print module directly is arranged in the exit of differential Weighing module, this franking machine is characterised in that described differential Weighing module comprises a plurality of sensors that are used to detect mail format and thickness, thereby can calculate the postmark content in advance, and be arranged on the detector that exists between described differential Weighing module and the described print module, be used for surveying mail and when weighed.
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